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Quis custodiet ipsos medici?

Internet security is in a position similar to that of safety in the medical industry. Many doctors have an opinion like this one, quoted by Kent Bottles: “Only 33% of my patients with diabetes have...

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“botnet herders can add it to its spam-spewing botnet”—Fahmida Y. Rashid in...

This reporter spits out a string of alliterative language that labels the problem that SpamRankings.net helps diagnose. Fahmida Y. Rashid wrote in eWeek.com 8 June 2011, UT Researchers Launch...

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You can help Stop-eCrime

Stop-eCrime aims to reduce electronic crime by increasing transparency of information and communications technologies. Born out of 2010 meetings organized by the Anti-Phishing Working Group and the...

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How to leverage botnet takedowns

What is to be done when botnet takedowns don’t produce lasting benefits? At the Telecommunications Policy and Research Conference in Arlington, VA in September, I gave a paper about Rustock Botnet and...

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Global Crossing spam spike, November 2011

In the November SpamRankings.net from PSBL data, Global Crossing’s AS 3549 GBLX spiked on 17 November and a few days before, pushing it into fifth place. Did this spam spike come from any particular...

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CSHS is back in January 2012 SpamRankings.net

In SpamRankings.net, January PSBL data reveals three three-digit U.S. medical spamming organizations, plus CSHS, and CBL data confirms a big spam spike from CSHS. The three with more than 100 spam...

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Is January’s medical spam caused by botnets?

Remember those three spamming medical organizations PSBL saw and the spike from CSHS that SpamRankings.net found in CBL data? Digging into the underlying data, and graphing them all on the same chart,...

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Did the February 2012 spam surge come from one botnet?

SpamRankings.net saw AS 21788NOC AS 27229WEBHOST-ASN1 AS 46475LIMESTONENETWORKS AS 33055BCC-65-182-96-0-PHX AS 15149EZZI-101-BGP AS 13768PEER1 AS 10439CARINET AS 7796ATMLINK a huge surge in spam from...

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What other ASNs were affected by botnet Ogee in February 2012?

Previously we determined that nine ASNs that showed spam surges in the U.S. and Canadian top 10 SpamRankings.net for February 2012 were infested by the botnet Ogee and that spam came from that botnet....

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eCrime Summit in Prague 25-27 April 2012

These ecrime meetings are always interesting and useful. -jsq Press release of 29 March: Containing the Global Cybercrime Threat is Focus of Counter eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS VI) in Prague, April...

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